This course proposes an overview of current global health challenges drawing on the insights of several academic disciplines including medicine, public health, law, economics, social sciences and humanities. This interdisciplinary approach will guide the student into seven critical topics in global health.

From the lesson

Introduction

Welcome to Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview! This course consists of the course guides, including discussion forum activities and assessments, along with presentations by a range of presenters, from the University of Geneva, The Graduate Institute, WHO, UNDP, WTO, IUCN, Medicines Patent Pool, among others. You will benefit from the insights and perspectives of multiple contributors involved in global health research, teaching, policy and practice across disciplines and sectors. Your enjoyment and benefits from the course will above all depend on your participation within this course, and we very much look forward to your participation through the discussion forums. Enjoy the course!

Meet the Instructors

Rafael Ruiz De Castañeda

Institute of Global Health - Faculty of MedicineUniversity of Geneva

Antoine Flahault

Professor of Public Health and Director of the Institute of Global Health (Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva) and co-Director of Centre Virchow-Villermé (Université Paris Descartes)University of Geneva and Université Paris Descartes – Sorbonne Paris Cité

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Bonjour, my name is Louis Loutan.

I'm a professor at the University of Geneva and head of the Division of

International and Humanitarian Medicine at the Geneva University Hospital.

And I'm the coordinator of this move on global health,

an interdisciplinary approach.

My training is in internal medicine, tropical medicine, and public health.

I've worked five years in Africa with nomadic people,

two years in Boston to do public health at Taft and Harvard and

came back to Geneva to tell of travel medicine, tropical medicine,

migrant health, and now we're involved in several projects over seas.

Kazahakistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Nepal, Togo, Tanzania, Jordan.

It's a great pleasure to be involved in this move,

I'm also the president of the Geneva house forum,

a major conference in global health, which takes place every other year.